The library

• Europe · c.1450–1600Print Finds a PublicA machine begins printing words faster than anyone can read them. Europe has to decide what books are for.
• Haiti · 1791–1804The Haitian RevolutionThe most unlikely revolution of its age, and the new nation the old world tried to ignore.
• India · 1947PartitionTwo countries born in five weeks — and the lines that shape a fifth of humanity.

• MindsPsychology & the MindWhy clever people believe wrong things — and what your mind is doing when it feels certain.
• SystemsHow the World WorksSupply chains, interest rates, incentives — the everyday machinery nobody shows you.
• MethodEvidence & DisagreementHow we weigh a view against its best critics — and say plainly what nobody knows.

• MachinesAI & AgencySoftware that acts on your behalf — and the question of who is still steering.
• ClimateClimate & AdaptationHow cities, coasts and crops are already being redesigned for a warmer world.

• Crime & PerceptionIs crime actually rising?What the fear says, what the figures say — and where they honestly part.
• Home & This DecadeWill you ever own a home?The strongest case for despair, the strongest case against — and the receipts.
• Mind & Modern LifeWhy does everyone feel so anxious?Both cases at full strength — and what would change our mind.
• Work & Your Next Five YearsWill AI come for your job — or just the first rung?Two camps shouting past each other — heard properly, one at a time.

More open questions will be added after editorial review.